Domain - Sciences

Sciences

  • Domain (biology), a taxonomic subdivision even larger than a kingdom
  • Domain knowledge, a specific expert knowledge valid for a pre-selected area of activity, such as surgery
  • Domain specificity, a theoretical position arguing that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized learning devices
  • Domain wall, a physics concept relevant to both magnetism and string theory
  • Magnetic domain, a region within a magnetic material which has uniform magnetization
  • Protein domain, a part of a protein that can exist independently of the rest of the protein chain

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Famous quotes containing the word sciences:

    The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)